Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #71 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #472 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #779 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #170 / 569
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #257 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #103 / 840
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #15 / 98
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #872 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #107 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #227 / 827
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #561 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 3
Hash staircase - 48 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #18 / 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #201 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #228 / 376
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #125 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #236 / 700
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #115 / 635
- Number of attempts: 7
Convert Application Output to CSV - 187 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #37 / 52
- Number of attempts: 2
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries
Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2 / 16
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1173 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 305 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #100 / 163
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #666 / 695
- Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 91 entries
Make a box!
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #9 / 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 120 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #9 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #386 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #170 / 364
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #398 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 8
Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #29 / 171
- Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #62 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #27 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 6
Vim's not included features - 210 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #32 / 62
- Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2165 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #40 / 662
- Number of attempts: 6
Build a six - 272 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #64 / 92
- Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #4 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
snowflake fractal - 40 entries
From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #13 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #78 / 135
- Number of attempts: 3
Assign numbers to fields - 105 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #10 / 59
- Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #40 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #72 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 312 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #60 / 148
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #242 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #117 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #300 / 351
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #79 / 268
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #47 / 578
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #777 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #585 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 9
Shebangs for all - 1912 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #34 / 500
- Number of attempts: 8
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #111 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Build a six - 272 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...